Photo by JEFFREY HASTINGS A state police investigator takes photos of the wreckage of the vehicle that left the Everett Turnpike in Merrimack Saturday morning and crashed into trees. The driver, a 17-year-old from Nashua, died at the scene of multiple injuries. The memorial marker at left was put up following a July 2019 crash in the same location that claimed the life of a Massachusetts woman. (Photo by JEFFREY HASTINGS)

MERRIMACK – State police say a 17-year-old male from Nashua, whose identity they hadn’t released as of Saturday afternoon, died at the scene of a crash that occurred earlier in the day on the Everett Turnpike.

Police said troopers, along with Merrimack police, firefighters and medical personnel, responded just after 8 a.m. to calls reporting a vehicle that was headed south on the turnpike went off the road and down an embankment before crashing into “multiple trees,” causing what police described as “significant damage” to the vehicle, a 2006 Toyota Corolla.

The driver, who was alone in the car, succumbed to his injuries at the scene, police added.

Additional details will be posted as they become available. In the meantime, police ask anyone who may have witnessed the crash to contact state police Trooper Nicholas Quintiliani at Nicholas.Quintiliani@dos.nh.gov or 223-4381.

Dean Shalhoup may be reached at 594-1256 or dshalhoup@nashuatelegraph.com.